The Yale International Studies Workshop will host Building Bridges: Black GIs, Military Labor, and the Fight for Equality in World War II, a conversation with Douglas Bristol.

Bristol is a historian of the African American experience. In his teaching and research, he focuses on the beliefs, institutions, and strategies that ordinary Americans developed to exercise control over their lives.He co-edited Integrating the U.S. Military: Race, Gender, and Sexuality Since World War II, to which he contributed a chapter on understanding the resistance of black soldiers during World War II. His current book project, Khaki Globe Trotters, explores how black GIs used military service in World War II to claim the New Deal's promise of security. The Art of Manliness podcast and the PBS documentary, Boss: The Black Experience in Business, featured his work.

The Yale International Studies Workshop is produced with the support of The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund and The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, and co-hosted by the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.

Lunch will be provided for all participants. To request a copy of the paper, please email Jack Guenther at Jack.Guenther@yale.edu.